It is summer and by moonlight they take the air and get rid of their fleas by touch. (Es herano y a la luna, toman el fresco, y se espulgan / al tiento)
[Three Figures Seated at an Open Window]
Double-sided drawing in Album B (Madrid Sketchbook) No. 85;, on verso B 86 :"Buen Sacerdote..." (Good Priest....)

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)

1794–97

Medium/TechniqueDouble-sided album drawing: Brush and carbon black ink with wash on blued (smalt) white laid paper remnants of pink mount; on verso, Album B 86 Man Pulling Up his Breeches ("Buen Sacerdote...") (63.984b)

DimensionsSheet: 23.6 x 14.2 - 14.5 cm (9 5/16 x 5 5/8 in.)

Credit LineErnest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund

Accession number63.984a

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Inscriptions(a) Recto: u.r., in carbon black ink: 85."; Below image in pen and brown ink:"es b(h)erano y ala luna, toman el fresco, y se espulgan/ al tiento" Verso (63.984b): Upper left in carbon black ink: 86; lower center in iron gall (brown) ink: "Buen sacerdote ¿ donde se ha celebrado? " Provenance1828, by inheritance to the artist’s son, Javier Goya y Bayeu (b. 1784–d. 1854), Madrid; 1854, by inheritance to his son, Mariano Goya y Goicoechea (b. 1806–d. 1874), Madrid; about 1855–60, sold by Mariano Goya to Valentín Carderera y Solano (b. 1796–d. 1880), Madrid, and/or Federico de Madrazo y Kunz (b. 1815–d. 1894), Madrid; probably in 1866, given or sold by Madrazo to Scipione Vannutelli (b. 1834–d. 1894), Rome; by descent to his heirs, the Clementi-Vannutelli family. Carlo Sestieri (dealer), Rome. 1963, Colnaghi and Co., London; 1963, sold by Colnaghi and Co. to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 5, 1963)